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‘One mechanism often proposed to explain how encrusting algae can inhibit their potential competitors is thallus shedding, which is well documented among nongeniculate coralline algae.’

‘In more distal positions within the ramp, the ‘background’ sediment is a fine- to medium-grained floatstone to rudstone with abundant, small fragments of delicate-branching bryozoans and branching coralline algae.’

‘Fiji is the world's primary supplier of live rock (covered with decorative coralline algae and other tiny invertebrates).’

‘The organisms that most significantly contribute to the production of temperate carbonate grains, such as bryozoans, coralline algae and epifaunal bivalves, cannot successfully thrive on mobile substrate.’

‘Most limestone deposits of reef origin consist largely of the skeletons of coralline algae, and because these are often associated with petroleum deposits, there has been a great deal of attention focussed on these fossils.’

‘Some organisms, including sponges, barnacles, and encrusting coralline algae, can, however, survive overgrowth, without apparent damage, for indeterminate periods of time or may even benefit from being overgrown.’

‘I will leave the lights off until the tank cycles, discouraging any green diatom growth while dosing with calcium to regenerate the varying reds of coralline algae.’

‘In protected places, every inch of rock is forested in reds, pinks, and purples of the rockweed and coralline algae.’

‘These reef-building rhodophytes are called coralline algae, because they secrete a hard shell of carbonate around themselves, in much the same way that corals do.’